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Russian Foundation Of Basic Research Chooses Elsevier's Scopus To Improve Russia's Research Ranking Position

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced it has reached an agreement with the Russian Foundation of Basic Research (RFBR) to provide its funding experts with access to
Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Furthermore, an additional 50 RFBR research institutes will receive access to
ScienceDirect, Elsevier's full-text platform for research literature.

With a total of 200 RFBR research institutes now having access to ScienceDirect and funding experts having access to Scopus, this one-year license agreement aims to increase the visibility and quality of Russian scientific research. This should further improve
Russia's research ranking position and support a more qualified and efficient grant assigning program.

Vladimir Eliseev, RFBR's Director, said, "Cooperation with Elsevier to provide access to multi-disciplinary abstract and citation database Scopus empowers the Foundation to track citations of scientific articles published with RFBR funds. The obtained data will be an objective indicator of the achievements of Russian scientists; and in the long term can be used in analytical work to identify further areas for funding."

Igor Osipov, PhD, Elsevier Regional Director for
Russia and
Belarus added, "RFBR is the flagship scientific foundation in
Russia and we are honored to continue our cooperation with this next step. ScienceDirect and Scopus offer quality information and guidance to RFBR's efforts to boost cutting edge fundamental research and will help benchmark
Russia's scientific output against international results."

About the Russian Foundation for Basic Research

The
Russian Foundation for Basic Research is a self-governing foundation existing in the form of a federal institution run under the jurisdiction of the government of the
Russian Federation. Its main goal is to provide support and assistance to research work in all areas of fundamental science on a competitive basis and which is called upon to build new relationships between scientists and the state. The foundation distributes federal funding to the most advanced research projects originating both from Russian universities as well as from institutions of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The RFBR is part of G8 scientific foundations family and enjoys close cooperation ties with all key funding bodies across the globe: from
North America to EU,
China and
Japan. Financing refereed projects across disciplines, key attention is given to physics, technology and nano-technology, medicine, various interdisciplinary studies, which Russian government identified as priority in R&D development until 2020.